Doors to Madame Marie
By: Odette Meyers
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Seattle
Language: eng
Number of pages: 463
ISBN-13: 9780295975764
Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Jewish children in the Holocaust; Ethnic relations; Versteck; Righteous Gentiles in the Holocaust; Personal narratives; Childhood and youth; Biography; Judenvernichtung
Description: This eloquent and spirited memoir of a young Jewish girl's coming of age in Nazi-occupied France recounts her own family's difficult and brave survival and portrays as well the love and quiet heroism of her rescuers.

A powerful central figure is Madame Marie Chotel, the Catholic concierge and seamstress who hides seven-year-old Odette and her mother in her broom closet while police search, who secures the child's safe haven in a distant province, and who is cherished by Odette, even in absentia, as her godmother and mentor.